8January 4, 2012

My earliest memory is of my father, my uncle and myself canoeing across Lac La Ronge while I ate sunflower seeds between the gunwales and sent the shells spinning into...

0November 27, 2011

Guest post by Robyn Vinter. Robyn is a travel blogger and content writer for Looking4Parking in Leeds, UK. Having graduated with a first class degree in Journalism from Leeds Metropolitan...

6November 15, 2011

I started a year long sabbatical from work in May 2010. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to write the technical book that was bursting out of me – the...

My earliest memory is of my father, my uncle and myself canoeing across Lac La Ronge while I ate sunflower seeds between the gunwales and sent the shells spinning into the eddies of my father’s paddle strokes. Some places make me feel at home; some...

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Guest post by Robyn Vinter. Robyn is a travel blogger and content writer for Looking4Parking in Leeds, UK. Having graduated with a first class degree in Journalism from Leeds Metropolitan University, she has written for numerous local and national newspapers and magazines in the UK....

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I started a year long sabbatical from work in May 2010. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to write the technical book that was bursting out of me – the accumulated experience of growing a successful web company for ten years. It didn’t sound particularly...

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Guest Post by: Mike Curtis who has has just returned to Merry old Blighty after spending 3 months being very, very lost in Asia. He now works for Uswitch, comparing gas and electricity prices. Forever. “Mum, I’m going to go to a Malaria hot spot,...

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I’ve been a bad, bad blogger. As some of you know, a few months back I took a job at Facebook and since then my focus has shifted from this site. All my time has been spent working and I’ve done very little travel and...

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Let’s start this by saying I love chocolate. I love the smell, I love the shape, and I love the taste. I want to make out with it. I want to bathe in it. I want my clothes to be made of chocolate so I...

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. Everyone at some point in their lives should be in the service industry. EVERYONE. Then they would understand the trials and hurdles a waiter faces. This post is inspired by two new buddies from Denmark(whom I met on my travels in NZ and then proceeded...

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We spent a glorious day at the Elephant Nature Park, just outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand. I’m going to do a proper post on the experience in the next few days, but thought I would share this ridiculous picture of me getting a kiss by...

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This is a guest post by Aneda Antanaviciute. She was born in 1977 and grew up in Klaipeda, Lithuania. From an early age, she was interested in photography, books and travel. All the photos in this post were taken and belong to Aneda. As a teenager I read a lot. One of my favourite...

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I’ve been a little bit quiet here for awhile, in part because of the topic of this post: travel and jet lag. A few weeks back I had the fortune of being flown by one of the world’s top companies from Vietnam to San Francisco...

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